Dracula marsupialis Luer & Hirtz 1986 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
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Photo by © Eric Hunt
Common Name The Marsupial Like Dracula [Refers to the pouched lip, like a Kangaroo would have]
Flower Size 2.8" [7 cm]
Found in northwestern Ecuador in wet cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular shjeaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, subplicate, elliptical, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, horizontal to descending with the flower facing downwards, 12 to 16.8" [30 to 42 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a few distant bracts and with a tubular floral bract. .
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 5 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1992 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 Drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide
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